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HopeHoops

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9. Actually it is 17. At least it was during the Big Bang. The fourth is time.

Reply to Bake (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:36 PM

Feb 2012

And even THAT one is questionable. Time out here on the outskirts is far slower than time near the "center", if you can call it that. We can't transcend Newtonian physics without moving into multi-dimensional thinking. I'm not by any means an expert in the field, but I can't understand why they haven't figured that out yet.

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About those Faster Than Light neutrinos...nevermind. [View all] edhopper Feb 2012 OP

Those what??? Skidmore Feb 2012 #1

corrected immediately edhopper Feb 2012 #3

Damn. There goes my best joke.... FSogol Feb 2012 #2

That's pretty good. edhopper Feb 2012 #4

Why the fuck are people still thinking in three dimensions? HopeHoops Feb 2012 #5

Faster than light edhopper Feb 2012 #6

Einstein was wrong. There is no limit. Think about it, what is outside of the universe? HopeHoops Feb 2012 #10

Do you honestly believe you've had an insight Einstein didn't? tkmorris Feb 2012 #11

Living around the corner from his cottage in Princeton you could meet regular folks who grantcart Feb 2012 #16

He also didn't memorize his phone number on the grounds that he could always look it up. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #20

That's not my own thinking, just a theory I believe to be possible. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #19

It's not hard to have an insight that Einstein didn't have... JHB Feb 2012 #36

Einstein would look at you, make no comment then walk away. nt Javaman Feb 2012 #13

Probably because he wanted a doughnut. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #21

Possibly... Javaman Feb 2012 #22

Or stoned. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #23

okay then... Javaman Feb 2012 #24

No. I still contend that the universe is multi-dimensional by necessity. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #25

okay then... Javaman Feb 2012 #28

It's not three, dammit, it's FOUR!! FOUR!! Bake Feb 2012 #7

Actually it is 17. At least it was during the Big Bang. The fourth is time. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #9

String theory is multi-dimensional metalbot Feb 2012 #29

Yet. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #30

I mean really, look around you. Bake Feb 2012 #32

It's sort of one of those Flatland problems - we know what we directly observe. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #35

I effing told you! Bake Feb 2012 #8

It still made people think a little differently for a while... Javaman Feb 2012 #14

Deep within the science lab... Javaman Feb 2012 #12

The Italians made their measurements cloudbase Feb 2012 #15

Oh, come on now! Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #31

Amazing what some neutrinos will go though just to avoid a speeding ticket. hughee99 Feb 2012 #17

99% of problems lie on the physical layer Taverner Feb 2012 #18

Great thread! ananda Feb 2012 #26

"The bottom line is that we will not know until... stlsaxman Feb 2012 #27

"Every mountain is unclimbable until it is climbed. Every ship is too large to sink until it is sunk LanternWaste Feb 2012 #33

It's not a speed limit. edhopper Feb 2012 #34